SCTPhantom, tracked as CVE-2026-64564, is a high-severity Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration implementation. Researchers at Tencent Zhuque Lab’s Corvus AI project reported that a local attacker could leverage the flaw to escalate privileges to root and, in certain configurations, to escape from containers to the host. […] The post 18-Year-Old Linux Kernel SCTP Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Root and Escape Containers appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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